Re: [Ltib] Re: Ltib Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Henry,

This just the intermediate build area.  Once a package is built, this
will be removed.

The package itself when it gets installed after the build will get put
into <ltibdir>/rootfs

Regards, Stuart

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:08 -0700, hong zhang wrote:
> List,
> 
> I am using Ltib for freescale imx31. After turnning on
> DirectFB and DirectFB-examples, they are located in
> ltib/rpm/BUILD. Does it mean all user space
> application packages will sit ltib/rpm/BUILD?
> 
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:29:19 +0200
> > From: Harald Dunkel <address@hidden>
> > Subject: [Ltib] to be root or not to be root?
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> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > For fun I tried ltib on my Debian host today. I was
> > told
> > (http://www.bitshrine.org/) that it doesn't need
> > root, but
> > first thing it did was complaing about missing sudo,
> > and
> > next it claimed to need root permission without
> > password(!)
> > to run rpm. That rang all alarm bells.
> > 
> > What is the story here? Will it put my root
> > partition at
> > risk by installing foreign RPMs? Is there some way
> > to use
> > fakeroot instead?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Harri
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:00:20 +0100
> > From: Stuart Hughes <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [Ltib] to be root or not to be root?
> > To: Harald Dunkel <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > 
> > Hi Harri,
> > 
> > LTIB only runs using root permissions during the
> > actual install phase of
> > an rpm.  During builds and any other time it is just
> > the normal user.
> > 
> > We need root permissions during the package
> > installation as it is
> > creating a real root filesystem under rootfs to be
> > mounted etc by the
> > booting target.  This needs root permissions, no way
> > around it.
> > 
> > However, if you look at the package spec files (the
> > %pfx) and at the
> > ltib code itself I go to great lengths to make sure
> > that even errant
> > package should not be able to scribble over your
> > normal system
> > directories (see check_host_clobber line 2395 in
> > ltib). 
> > 
> > Regards, Stuart
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:29 +0200, Harald Dunkel
> > wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > For fun I tried ltib on my Debian host today. I
> > was told
> > > (http://www.bitshrine.org/) that it doesn't need
> > root, but
> > > first thing it did was complaing about missing
> > sudo, and
> > > next it claimed to need root permission without
> > password(!)
> > > to run rpm. That rang all alarm bells.
> > > 
> > > What is the story here? Will it put my root
> > partition at
> > > risk by installing foreign RPMs? Is there some way
> > to use
> > > fakeroot instead?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Harri
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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